Dr. Pappas received his doctorate from Rutgers University in ’99 and began his professional career as a researcher in the Skin Research Center of Johnson & Johnson.  Later, in 2001, he served as a group leader at Munich Biotech, where he worked on cancer research.  In 2003, he returned to J&J, where he was a Research Manager and Fellow focusing on skin lipid research.

Dr. Pappas is one of the first to culture cells that were previously not cultured; as human primary sebocytes and human facial preadipocytes.  He has authored 40 peer-reviewed scientific publications, patents, and four books.  

While at J&J, he collaborated with many experts and KOLs to open a new field within the academic textbook arena and curriculums on “Nutrition and Skin”, published by Springer in 2011.  The success and wide recognition of this project paved the way for his second textbook by Springer in 2014: “Lipids and Skin Health”; also the very first of its kind.…